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  The challenge of eliminating world poverty

  Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, 2000

  This document is based on a compilation of reports following the SDC's review on its concepts on social development and the fight against poverty, as well as its vision, basic concerns and objectives after the World Summit on Social Development in Copenhagen in May 1995.
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  Realising human rights for poor people

  Department for International Development, UK, 2000

  This paper presents DFID's strategy for the achievement of human rights and fundamental freedoms of poor people. The central message is that the International Development Targets can only be achieved through the engagement of poor people in the development processes which affect their lives.
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  Halving poverty by doubling aid: how well founded is the optimism of the World Bank?

  Kiel Institute of World Economics/Institut für Weltwirtschaft, 2002

  This report constitutes a challenge to the effectiveness of the World Bank's strategy of concentrating, and thereby increasing, aid on countries with 'good' policies.The arguments used against the World Bank policy include:an analysis of the inconsistent relationship between economic growth and levels of aid delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and South Asia, raises considerabl
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  Special allocation for poverty relief infrastructure investment and Job summit projects: an overview

  Project Literacy, 2001

  This paper is a review of the special poverty allocation mechanism that was introduced in South Africa in the wake of the structural adjustment programmes. It sheds light on the problems faced by departments in the delivery of services to the poor, which are seen to be similar across various government departments.
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  Human rights approach to poverty reduction strategies: draft guidelines

  United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2002

  The paper outlines a set of guidelines produced by the United Nations in collaboration with several organisations for the implementation of a human rights-based approach to poverty reduction strategies The document was compiled by three experts commissioned by the UN, professors Paul Hunt, Manfred Nowak and Siddiq Osmani.
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  Directing EU policy towards poverty eradication: from commitments to targets to results

  European Centre for Development Policy Management, 2002

  This paper examines the efforts of European institutions to redirect development policies to assist people living in poverty. These efforts are assessed within the international context of new ideas about how poverty eradication can best be achieved.
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  Energy for the poor: underpinning the millennium development goals

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  This document highlights some of the ways in which access to clean, efficient energy services can tackle poverty.Lack of access to adequate, affordable, reliable, safe and environmentally benign energy is a severe constraint on development. Two billion people lack clean, safe cooking fuels and must depend on traditional biomass sources.
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  Measuring the performance of EC development cooperation: lessons from the experiences of international development agencies

  Department for International Development, UK, 2002

  This study identifies the scope and nature of performance measurement systems used by some of the major development agencies in order to contribute to the debate on performance indicators for EC development cooperation.This study offers several suggestions that the EC might wish to explore.
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  Death on the doorstep of the summit

  Oxfam, 2002

  The food crisis has many causes but the most significant according to this report, is the failure of agricultural policies.The paper asks why, after years of World Bank and IMF designed agricultural sector reforms, do Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique face chronic food insecurity.
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  Limits of conditionality in poverty reduction programs

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2002

  The paper focuses on how to optimally design conditionality for poverty reduction when the objectives of the donor and those of the recipient are not perfectly aligned.The authors found 3 important resultsconditionality entails distortions and is responsible for an inefficient allocation of resourcesaid policies should be tailored according to the recipient government's preferences

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